Hispano-Flemish Women (c. 1480-1530)

Period Images:

All women are wearing the Saya Verdugada which is a predicessor to the farthengale, and made with applied strips sewn to the outer garment and filled with a braid or cord of aprox 1/8" thickness, or 1/4 round basket weave. They may also have on a bum roll. (Woman on Right) The striped chamisa has scallopped sleeves. (Woman in Red) is wearing a velvet gown with a floating stomacher which may be pinned to her embroidered chamisa.

This woman is wearing a white Habito over a black partlet and has trim around the sleeves. Her hair is taped around the back of her head.

Reproductions:

Hispano-Flemish Kirtle by Dona Beatriz Aluares de la Oya. Image from: http://www.spanishseamstress.org/, used with her permission.

Hispano-Flemish Kirtle by Dona Beatriz Aluares de la Oya. Image from: http://www.spanishseamstress.org/, used with her permission.